Bowie was a protagonist of his times, although a poor musician: to say that Bowie is a musician is like saying that Nero was a harp player (a fact that is technically true, but misleading). Bowie embodies the quintessence of artificial art, raises futulity to paradigm, focuses on the phenomenon rather than the content, makes irrelevant the relevant, and, thus, is the epitome of everything that went wrong with rock music.

>>78798023why has a certain tribes of rootless urbanites come to exert such dominance over music journalism, showbusiness, the record industry, banking, you name it, why is it that? Can we really trust them to have the right opinion on what represents good music? And this is way before pitchfork and CNN, Rolling Stone was founded by a Wenner, Malcom McLaren, the publicity maverick behind the rise of the sex pistols was a literal child pornographer, NWA was a Mossad operation from day one, and who can forget Mr. Epstein, the 6th Beatle and the son of a Rabbi himself.

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>>78795785>Nightmare mode: find a meritHamilton is an interesting play, if only because it is a perfect snapshot of a particular moment in America's history and a particular ideology. ie. 'Obamaism', the age of Hope and Change. For 8 glorious years , Obama served as america's 'cool' and with it black POTUS, his brand: MLK meets Steve Jobs meets Morgan Freeman meets JFK meets Bono from U2. A Nobel Peace prize winning everyman superhero who order a drone strike on an Afghan village in the morning and dance with Ellen(tm) on prime time, a highly professional technocrat with a heart of gold. For once, the American Empire became a Force of Good(tm) in the world. Meanwhile, American culture succumbed to the nihilistic forces of post industrial decay and mindless consumerism dressed up like social progress. Politics descended to the level of trash tv entertainment, Obama became a walking buzzfeed listicle, the suburban neo-yokels in flyover country got duck dynasty and Sarah Palin. It was also an awkward time: social media atomised people as it drove them to an uncomfortable closeness with others. ''Nerd culture'' and ''cringe comedy'' go mainstream. The unstopable tide of post WWII liberal progress forced America to face its own genocidal past, the bloody absurdity of capitalism and empire. Obama was a pretty face on tv who kept the imperial warmachine churning and the markets going. It's fitting the Obama years closed with Hamilton and Donald Trump's victory over favourite Hillary Clinton.

>>78796754Donald J. Trump of the apprentice/WWE/birther fame has been president for 2 years now, cold war paranoia about Russia is back, everyone is miserable, the Davos/Sillicon Valley/Wall Street set is already drafting mars escape plans, investing in New Zealand real estate and bomb proof shelters.